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James Webb Space Telescope arrives at NASA JSC, to be tested by Ames SSA scientists this summer The James Webb Space Telescope Optical Telescope and Integrated Science instruments (JWST OTIS) shipped from NASA GSFC and arrived at NASA JSC on Sunday May 7.

JWST will undergo cryogenic vacuum testing in the historic JWSC Chamber A (built for Apollo) this summer, and SSA scientists T. Greene and T. Roellig will participate. Greene and Roellig are co-investigators on the JWST Near-IR Camera and Greene is a member of the JWST mid-IR science team. Both have already conducted over 1000 hours of JWST testing in Palo Alto, RAL (UK), and NASA GSFC.